This Mystical Lake Cabin Will Give You Goosebumps

This "Best Lake Cabin is the perfect spot to spend vacations and time away, located beside a beautiful lake and surrounded by forest, it's the type of place we all dream about. This log cabin is especially appealing at this time of year, when the leaves on the trees are changing color and offering up their colorful scenery.

Growing up we had a log cabin that was very similar to this rustic log cabin. There is something so calming about being in a log cabin surrounded by nature, a lake and the sounds of the forest. This rustic log cabin is a great place to vacation, to use as a guest house or spend special holidays. Imagine enjoying your Thanksgiving dinner in a log cabin such as this, it would be lovely. This rustic log cabin has a large front patio, where you could enjoy countless hours gazing out at the serene lake, and view.

This site shares a love of rustic cabin life through photos and art that have collected been collected along the way. On this site you will find plenty of log home inspirations and ideas from lakeside log cabins, countryside log cabins, log cabin great rooms, antique country stoves, rustic log cabin kitchens, log cabin porches, lakeside campfires, nature inspired paintings, log cabins, marshmallows roasting over campfires, antique wood stoves, stone fireplaces, log cabin patios, spiral staircases, rustic homesteading cabins, log cabins and log homes from all over the world, and plenty of country inspiration.

A log house (or log home) is structurally identical to a log cabin (a house typically made from logs that have not been milled into conventional lumber). The term log cabin is not preferred by most contemporary builders, as it generally refers to a smaller, more rustic log house such as a hunting cabin in the woods, or a summer cottage. Log construction was the most common building technique in large regions of Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Baltic states and Russia, where straight and tall coniferous trees, such as pine and spruce, were readily available. It was also widely used for vernacular buildings in Eastern Central Europe, the Alps, the Balkans and parts of Asia, where similar climatic conditions were present. In the warmer and more westerly regions of Europe, where deciduous trees were more dominant, timber framing was favoured instead.

Some of the different types of log homes can include; handcrafted, which are typically made of logs that have been peeled, but essentially unchanged from their original appearance as trees; hewn logs, logs that are hewn by an axe to an oval, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular section; sawn logs, logs that are sawn to a standard width, but with their original heights; milled (also known as machine profiled), made with a log house moulder, made with logs that have been run through a manufacturing process which then converts them into timbers which are consistent in size and appearance.

Handcrafted log houses have been built for centuries in Scandinavia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and were typically built using only an axe and knife. The Scandinavian settlers of New Sweden brought the craft to North America in the early 18th century, where it was quickly adopted by other colonists and Native Americans. Possibly the oldest surviving log house in the United States is the C. A. Nothnagle Log House (circa 1640) located in New Jersey.